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🌐🧠🇰🇷 Most remarkable: Samsung began shipping next‑gen HBM4 memory, a key AI accelerator component, signaling a new phase in the AI hardware race and lifting its shares to a record. The Korea HeraldThe Korea HeraldThe Korea Herald
🇨🇭🏗️ Switzerland: Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich secured up to CHF 445M to expand new lab and office space, strengthening the country’s applied research and startup campus. startupticker.ch
🇪🇺👁️ Germany/Europe: Bremen’s transit operator BSAG is rolling out “AI‑Watch” analytics on trams, introducing real‑time passenger analysis that raises new questions about public-space surveillance standards. heise
🇺🇸🔒 America: After privacy backlash, Ring ended its data‑link plan with Flock Safety tied to a Super Bowl ad; reports highlight the broader risks of neighborhood camera networks. The New York TimesBBCheise
🎨🎬 Tech & culture: Swiss startup OOVIE Studios won CHF 150k to build “music‑interactive movies,” letting creators generate films directly from songs via the OO App. startupticker.ch
🛡️🔬 Dual‑use: Inleap Photonics adapted its high‑precision industrial laser‑beam steering for mobile, accurate anti‑drone defense—an approach framed as more agile than legacy systems. heise
🏛️📵 Policy & platforms: Germany’s CDU backed a social‑media ban for under‑14s, while experts warned that an internet “real‑name” push would harm free speech and miss root causes of online hate. heiseheise
🌍🕵️ Africa: A prominent Angolan journalist was found to have Predator spyware on his iPhone, with forensic details published by Amnesty—highlighting escalating risks for reporters. heiseTechCentral (South Africa)
🌏📶 Asia (6G): Samsung, KT and Keysight verified ultra‑high‑density antenna tech in the 7 GHz band, demonstrating up to 3 Gbps downlink in outdoor 6G field tests. The Korea Herald
🤖📦 AI: Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro for more complex workloads, while a Google VP cautioned that “LLM wrappers” and AI aggregators face shrinking margins and limited differentiation. heiseTechCrunch
🌱🏗️ Sustainability: European researchers at KIT are testing a concrete that permanently stores CO₂, addressing one of construction’s largest climate pain points. heise
🍽️🌾 Food tech: “Tech‑dense” farms—sensors, robotics and AI—are being pitched to lift yields and lower prices, but adoption and economics remain key hurdles for producers. BBC
🧬🏥 Longevity & health: Lausanne’s Limula moved to commercial phase after fully automating a 7‑day end‑to‑end CAR‑T production run, with first revenues and a growing pipeline toward clinical use. startupticker.ch
💰📈 Fundraising: Swiss startup Rapidata raised $8.5M to speed up high‑quality human feedback for AI training and evaluation, tackling dataset labeling and refinement bottlenecks. startupticker.ch
🧑🔬✨ Remarkable individual: Lisa Su revived AMD from near‑bankruptcy and now leads a charge against Nvidia with new AI chips—an engineer’s turnaround that reshaped the chip industry. NZZ
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